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9.1.4 Wall Pier Shear Design

Wall pier shear design is performed at top and bottom of pier section. ETABS follows the
procedure as per BS 8110, CI. No. 3.4.5.

Concrete shear stress is limited to avoid shear cracking prior to the ultimate limit state, hence the
shear stress is limited to equation 6b in the code.

In the calculation of concrete shear stress, the area of tension reinforcement is considered as
50% of the total area required for the pier section.

The maximum shear stress is limited to 5 MPa and it doesn't consider any enhancement due to
high strength concrete.

The minimum shear steel i.e. horizontal steel is reported for the shear stress is equal to 0.4MPa.

During the shear design process, the reduction in concrete shear capacity will be considered due
to axial tension.

Uniform Reinforcing section

This wall design section will have uniform reinforcing (Edge bar & End bar) throughout the
section. This wall section is applicable to two and three dimension shear wall systems. ETABS
allows us to check & design for the user defined rebars details.

The planar pier sections with uniform reinforcing are designed for major axis moment and the
minor axis moment i.e. out of plane moment is always ignored.

The geometry of a uniform reinforcing pier section is picked up automatically by the program from
the area objects that define the pier section. If the pier section is made up of line objects only, the
line objects are considered by the program when determining the pier geometry.

Pier section Top Pier section Bottom 3D - view

View of objects as modelled in ETABS

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Section @ top Section @ bottom

View of pier section in Section Designer (Flexural Check)

The above picture shows the uniform pier section automatically assumed by the ETABS design
module for the flexural design check.

Leg 2 The pier is broken up into four legs labelled Leg 1

through Leg 4. The shear design and boundary zone
check are performed separately for each leg based
on the forces in the leg. This automatically accounts
CO for torsion in 3D wall piers.
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Leg 4 View of pier section for shear design check

User needs to select the "Uniform Reinforcing" option in the Pier section type in the above form.

Uniform Reinforcing Pier Section - Design (BS8110 97)

Story ID: STORY3 Pier ID: PI X Loc: 9 YLoc-12 Unils: KN-m

Flexural Design for P-M2 M3 (RLLF = 1.000)

Station Required Current Flexural Pier
Location Reinf Ratio Reinf Ratio Combo P M2 M3 Ag
Top 0.0025 0.0028 C0MB1 15000.000 0.000 0.000 0.500
Bottom 0.0025 0.0028 C0MB1 15000 000 0.000 0.000 0.500

Shear Design For V2

Station Rebar Shear Capacity Capacity
Location mm"2/m Combo P M V Vc Vi
Top Leg 1 22a833 C0MB1 15000.000 0.000 0.000 1922.744 200.000
BotLegl 228.833 C0MB1 15000.000 0.000 0.000 1922.744 200.000

The required flexural reinforcing ratio & horizontal shear reinforcing will reported for the governing
design load combination.

Uniform Reinforcing Pier Section - Check (BS8110 97)

Story ID: STORY2 Pier ID: PI X Loc: 9 Y Loc: 12 Units: KN-n

Flexural Check fi (RLLF - 1.000)

Station Flexural
Location Combo P M2 M3
Top C0MB1 15000.000 0.000 0.000
Bottom C0MB1 15000.000 0000 0.000

Shear Design For V2

Station Rebar Shear Capacity Capacity
Location mm"2/m Combo P M V Vc Vs
Top Leg 1 228.833 C0MB1 15000.000 0.000 0.000 1922.744 200.000
Bot Leg 1 228.833 C0MB1 15000.000 0.000 0.000 1922.744 200.000

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The same uniform pier section will be checked. The demand / capacity ratio & required shear
reinforcing will be reported. Shear strength can't be checked against the provided horizontal
shear steel.

Pier Design Overwrites - Uniform Reinforci

• Design this Pier? Yes

• LL Reduction Factor 1.
• Pier Section Type Uniform Reinforcing
• End/Corner Bar Name 10d
• Edge Bar Name 10d
• Edge Bar Spacing 0.25
• Clear Cover 0.0313
• Material CONC
• Check/Design Reinforcing Design

II OK J

Cancel

In the above pier design overwrite form; user can define rebar diameter and spacing, material and
live load reduction factor (Minimum 0.5 as per BS).

General Reinforcing section

The concept for this design section is same as uniform reinforcing section with user defined
reinforcing using section designer in ETABS. Here the user defines the geometry of the pier
section and the size and location of vertical rebar.

Shear design will be performed same as uniform reinforcing section.

Define the general reinforcing section using the Design menu > Shear Wall Design > Define
Pier Sections for Checking.

Base material type needs to be defined at this stage, which can't be revised in the design
overwrites form later.

tester k
Click to:

Add Pier Section.. Section Name

Add Copy of Pier Section. |

Base Material |C4 0

|;"Wpdiry/S.hgwPier Sedjgn. j

Add Pier
Delete Pier Section
• Add New Pier Section

C Start Irom Existing Wal l Piei

C anc el

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Define/Edit/Show Section

| Section Designer |

Ca nce l

Add the pier section using the Add Pier Section... Option, Pier section will be added as a new
section or start from existing wall pier.

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